DEI vs. Affirmative Action
How did Democrats get themselves into this jam?
Democrats need to realize that they had become so egregiously hate-filled toward whites, men, straights etc. during the Great Awokening that they are now paying the price by having a lot of their sinecures and grants taken away by the normally nice people whom they demonized.
Most normies we're tolerant of a moderate amount of discreet affirmative action, useless NGO spending, and soft-major nonsense until beginning in 2013 and peaking in the "racial reckoning" of 2020-2023, the left went nuts with its overt racist, sexist, and genderist hatred.
It turned out that a big problem for the left with their controlling the media is that the New York Times wouldn't tell its subscribers that their racist anti-white hate and other vices were getting out of control until it was too late:
For example, the term "anti-white hate" has never appeared in the New York Times in its 174 years, even though anti-white hate was a major theme of NYT discourse in roughly 2013-2022.
Remember how Nate Silver was worshipped by Democrats in 2012 as the epitome of technocratic brilliance for predicting Obama's victory?
Well, he _is_ the kind of highly intelligent guy you want on your side.
And then the Democrats immediately set about alienating him.
My guess is that most voters wouldn’t mind a return to the affirmative action days of smiling friendliness see in stock photos:
rather than the DEI days of utter racist hate:
The fairytale of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and all of its iterations in the following decades is over. It was sold to Americans as a way to help descendants of American slavery and Jim Crow. It soon (as predicted) begin to morph into a rewrite of the Constitution. "Age of Entitlement" by Christopher Caldwell is an excellent read to see the timeline of how this occurred.
In 1960, you could fit the entire population of people neither White or Black in present-day Phoenix Arizona.
Even if you agree with the original premise of the CRA, policies like Affirmative Action and other programs apply to any non-White who steps on the magic dirt shores of America, anyone claiming Hispanic heritage, or just someone who can claim oppression, this was the end of the goodwill of Whites towards these programs. It has become entirely weaponized and used as a political cudgel that neither promotes equality, or social cohesion.
The election of Barrack Obama as president in 2008 marked the beginning of a new era in American politics. The Democratic Party became the anti-white party in 2008 and most normal whites figured it out. By accident, the Republicans became the normal white person party. This intensified with the 2010 Republican route of the Democrats and the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016.
The Democratic Party escalated its hatred of normal whites with its reaction to the George Floyd death in 2020. Riots and the taking over of certain neighborhoods in leftist cities by leftist gangs were justified. Democratic politicians took knees for Mr. Floyd, a violent criminal and drug addict. Little things piled up. The Redskins football team changed their nickname because it was "racist." Aunt Jemima pancake flour was banished to the memory hole as was Uncle Ben's rice. Normal whites found the gyrations of the left over George Floyd bizarre and anti-white.
I don't know whether the Democrats can change. They are beholden to a myriad of leftist interest groups. The party is funded by the IT community, Jews, Hollywood and homosexuals, each a leftist interest group. Blacks, feminists and urban Hispanics provide the bulk of the votes for the Democratic Party. The Democrats will most likely choose to remain as they are. Their inept presidential candidate won 48.5 % of the vote in 2024. So why change?